The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1887-04-26


Moore, 'that the spirit of the man
chiefly reigned; the dominion of the
world and the senses being rather
strongly marked out in the lower"
Sheridan was above the middle size
and of robust and well proportioned
make.
William Pitt, the famous son of
Lord Chatham, was tall and slender.
There was a little harshness in his
features. but, like several of the ora
tors already mentioned, his face was
lighted up by the eye of genius. His
gestures were animated but not'grace
full. In Lord Fitzmaurice's Life of
Pitt " we have him thus described:
He was tall in person and as genteel
as martyr to the gout could be, with
the eye of hawk, little head, thin
face, long aquilline nose, and per
fectly erect"
The appearance Pitt presented on
entering the House of Commons has
been thus described by Wraxall:
From the instant he passed the door
way he advanced up the floor with a
quick and firm step, his head erect
and thrown back, looking neither to
the right nor to the left, nor favoring
with nod or a glance any of the in
dividuals seated on either side, among
whom many who possessed $4,000 a
year would have been gratifed even
by so slight mark of attention"
George Canning had all the natural
endowments of a great orator. He
had a graceful and commanding form.
"His features" says contemporary,
"were handsome, and his eye, though
deeply ensconced under his eyebrows,
was full of sparkle and gayety." Sir
James Macintosh gives it as his opin-
ion that in the calm part of his
speeches his attitude and gesture
might have been selected by painter
to represent grace rising toward dig
nifty"
Lord Brougham was remarkable for
his stiff and almost grotesque appear
ance. He had tall, disiointed frame,
with strong, bony limbs and hands
His features were expressive but sin
gularly harsh. While his forehead
shot up to a great elevation his chin
was long and square; his mouth, nose
and eyes seemed huddled together in
the centre of his face, his eyes abso
lutely lost amid folds and corruga-
tions: and while he sat listening they
seemed to retire inward or to be yelled
by flmly curtain, which not only
concealed the appalling glare which
shot from them when he was aroused,
but rendered his mind and his pur-
pose sealed book to the keenest scru-
tiny of man"
Daniel Webster, the distinguished
American orator, had an impressive
air. He was large, massive man,
with the head of a giant. He had a
sallow complexion and deep. cavern
GUS eyes, quite in harmony with his
deep bass voice.
OF Continental statesmen, one of
the most remarkable looking, as well
as one of the most remarkable in char
acter and experience, was Talleyrand.
OF him graphic description has been
given by Hayden the artist. "Imet," +"
he says, that patriarch of dissimula
lation and artiice, Talleyrand. but
once. but l shall never forget him.
He looked like toothless boa of in
trique. with nothing left but his poi
son. To see his impenetrable face at
a game of whist, watching everybody
without a trace of movement in his
own figure or face. save the slightest
imperceptible twitch in the lip, was a
sight never to be forgotten 1t was
the incarnation of meaning without
assumption
Robespierre was little, lean and
feeble-looking. He had a sharp face;
g his forehead was good, but narrow,
and largely developed in the percep-
tive organs; his mouth was large, and
the lips thin and compressed; his nose
was straight and small and very wide
at the nostrils" He was bilious, and
had livid complexion. Carlyle, in his
d" French Revolution always speaks
of him as the sea-green." Such was
the man for whom this epitaph was
Written: Passenger, lament not his
fate, for were he living thou wouldst
be dead"
We have a milder type of man in
Prince Charlie, description of whose
person has been handed down to US
by an eyewitness of his entry into
Edinburgh in 1745. He was then in
the prime of youth. tall and handsome,
and of a fair complexion-from its ex
treme delicacy his face was slightly
marked with freckles. He wore a
light eolored peruke, the ringlets of
which descended his back in graceful
masses, and over the front of which
his own fair hair was neatly combed.
His face was perfect oval. He had
large and rolling eyes of a light blue
color. His nose was round and high; !;
his mouth small in proportion to the
other features, and his chin was
pointed. His height was about six
feet. Even the Wings acknowledged
his handsome appearance, but they
took cara tO add that % he looko6 Ike